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Poek Pot-pie

A pork stew with biscuits baked in the gravy.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 12 ingredients
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Why it works: Lemon and parsley match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 14,037 recipes. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Poek Pot-pie

Ingredients

Directions

Stew the pork

  1. Cover the pork with cold water in a pot.

  2. Add lemon slices, parsley, and celery.

  3. Stew slowly for 30 minutes.

  4. Add the parboiled potatoes.

  5. Season with pepper and salt.

  6. Dredge with flour.

  7. Optionally, add catsup.

  8. Cover tightly.

  9. Cook until the meat is tender.

Thicken the gravy

  1. Stir in butter rolled in flour.

  2. Bring to a boil.

  3. Transfer the pork to a deep dish, leaving the gravy in the pot.

  4. Drop biscuit dough strips into the boiling gravy.

  5. Cook for 10 minutes.

Top and serve

  1. Lay half of the biscuit strips across the meat in one direction, then lay the rest in another direction, creating a grid.

  2. Pour the gravy gently over the meat.

  3. Serve.

  4. Bake biscuit rounds and place them on top of the meat and gravy.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together14,037 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  2. Parsley + celerytop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together6,810 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Parsley + peppertop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together34,122 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  4. Lemon + peppertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  5. Lemon + celerytop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together3,467 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Lean pork
Slow stewing breaks down connective tissue, leaving the meat tender and easy to pull apart.
Potatoes
Parboiled slices soften in the gravy, adding body and a starchy, tender texture.
Flour
Its starch swells in the hot liquid, thickening the gravy.
Butter
Adds richness and a smooth, glossy mouthfeel to the gravy.
Biscuit dough
Rises and browns in the oven, forming a soft, golden crust over the filling.

The step that matters

Stir in butter rolled in flour. Flour clumps if it hits hot liquid unevenly. Stirring the butter and flour into the gravy until smooth lets the starch disperse and swell evenly, so the gravy thickens without lumps.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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